Título: Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Autor: Rivka Galchen
Sinopse: The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances.
The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a witch.
Katharina is an illiterate widow, known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children, including her eldest, Johannes, who is the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion. It's enough to make anyone jealous, and Katharina has done herself no favors by being out and about and in everyone's business.
So when the deranged and insipid Ursula Reinbold (or as Katharina calls her, the Werewolf) accuses Katharina of offering her a bitter, witchy drink that has made her ill, Katharina is in trouble. Her scientist son must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother. Facing the threat of financial ruin, torture, and even execution, Katharina tells her side of the story to her friend and next-door neighbor Simon, a reclusive widower imperiled by his own secrets.
Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which Rivka Galchen is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch will both provoke and entertain. The story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear is a tale for our time. Galchen's bold new novel touchingly illuminates a society and a family undone by superstition, the state, and the mortal convulsions of history.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch”, de Rivka Galchen, publicado pela editora Picador Paper, em 2022 e com 288 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Picador Paper
Páginas: 288
Ano: 2022-06-21
Edição: Reprint
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1250849314
ISBN13: 9781250849311
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Picador Paper trazem narrativas que exploram profundamente a complexidade humana, muitas vezes atravessando temas históricos, sociais e pessoais com densidade e sensibilidade. A experiência de leitura costuma envolver personagens que enfrentam dilemas morais e transformações internas, em cenários que vão desde conflitos bélicos até pequenas comunidades marcadas por segredos e tensões. O ritmo varia entre a tensão crescente e momentos de reflexão, com uma linguagem que pode ser tanto lírica quanto direta, dependendo da obra. O catálogo apresenta tanto relatos ficcionais quanto biografias e ensaios, sugerindo uma preferência por textos que dialogam com questões contemporâneas e históricas, sem abrir mão da profundidade emocional.
